“Nobody asked me.”
“Not Maggie?”
“No; I didn't tell you our engagement is broken off.”
“No; you didn't say nothing about it.”
“On account of you. She discovered that you had been to my studio, and she said I was keeping a woman in Brighton.”
“Keeping a woman in Brighton—she thinks you are keeping me! I will write to her and tell her that it is not true. What right has she to say such things about me?”
“She doesn't say it about you. She says a woman.”
“She means me.”
“No, she doesn't; she doesn't know anything about you. Some one told her I went into Brighton every day by the four o'clock train, and she put two and two or rather two and three together, and said it was six.”
“But I will write to her. I will not be the cause of any one's marriage being broken off.”